They weren’t very popular and still aren’t. I don’t know if they’re very expensive, they were usually in the $20-$50 a couple years ago but everything has gone up a lot in the last year.
You can put it in drum mode and manually assign any note number you want to any pad, with separate note mappings for every kit so you could use your kits as presets. Use one kit to play the first 32 slices, a second kit to play the last 32 slices, and use other kits for other stuff that can be controlled by MIDI notes. The only big limitation would be that the MIDI channel for drum mode is a global setting, so you would be limited to using the auto channel on the OT - you couldn’t make a kit with pads set to, say, directly mute and solo channels or anything like that. But for playing slices and programming sequences it should be really good (I have one but I’ve never used it with the OT myself; now I kind of want to).
EDIT: I wouldn’t pay more than $70-$80 USD shipped for one, though, and that’s pushing it. If you get up into the three figures there are probably much better options.
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Smallest : OT trigs. Midi tracks can also be used with Arp / midi loopback.
Not cheap : a Zoia ?
I kept my QY100! Very similar, bigger.
25 notes, batteries or PSU, arranger, good fx…
I painted it black too.
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What is an OT Trigs?
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Ah, the octatrack itself. No not possible.
Wish the Octatrack had a little keyboard like the analog four. So handy
+1 for Arturia Keystep… or behringer swing LOL 